On June 7th in US Political History
Part III
Part III
On June 7th in 1942 The USS Yorktown was sunk off of Midway Atoll.
On June 7th in 1953 President Eisenhower announced that proposals for a Korean truce are acceptable to the US and appealed to South Korea to accept terms to stop the war.
On June 7th in 1955 President Eisenhower became the 1st president to appear on color TV.
On June 7th in 1973 President Nixon nominated Clarence M. Kelley, chief of police in Kansas City, to succeed J. Edgar Hoover as director of the FBI.
On June 7th in 1981 Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers in “Operation Opera” destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq at Osirak, Iraq, before it went into operation. Israelis charged that the facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
On June 7th in 1991 The US government reported the nation’s unemployment rate had worsened to a four-year high of six-point-nine percent in May, up three-tenths of a percentage point from April.
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